From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dependent colours
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:10:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8vb3au2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfqflqe2.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:56:53 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:56:53 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure I understand: we already have anonymous faces one can get
> > by specifying just the colors, as in
> >
> > '(:foreground "red" :background "blue")
> >
> > Why is that not enough?
>
> It's not about foreground or background colours, it's about choosing a
> colour based on features of the current frame, like defface.
But the result should be a face, right? So you want an easy-to-use
facility to create a face that depends on the background-mode? Or am
I misunderstanding again? And if I am misunderstanding, can you
please describe the use case in more detail?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-14 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-14 13:00 Dependent colours Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-14 13:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-14 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-14 14:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-14 14:57 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-14 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-14 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-14 13:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-14 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-14 16:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-14 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-15 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-15 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-15 9:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-15 10:32 ` Po Lu
2022-04-15 10:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-15 11:12 ` Po Lu
2022-04-15 10:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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